Scope: The base data used for this article originate from the candidate disclosures submitted as of August 1, 2011 (disclosing activity for the reporting period ending June 30, 2011). All electronic filings submitted by the identified candidates as of August 1st were reviewed, including for the 2010 and 2009 reporting periods. This article does not cover any financial activity that occurred after June 30, 2011.

Therefore, candidates that announced after June 30th (such as Chris Cunnie for Sheriff and Jeff Adachi for Mayor) obviously had no data for the period ending June 30th and were not examined for this article.

This article about the financing of San Francisco 2011 candidates follows Part 1 of this series, which was published on August 8, 2011. The present article provides five new sections (see links below) analyzing the candidate campaign financing.

The analysis of Sections 1 and 2 of this article are based on the number of itemized monetary contributors for each candidate. Note that the total number of itemized monetary contributions reported by candidates does not equate with the number of contributors making those contributions to the candidates, since many contributors make two or more contributions to the same candidate (typically in amounts totaling less than $500). To demonstrate the comparison between itemized contributions and contributors, we have provided the following table.

Summary: Which candidates get most of their itemized monetary contributions from donors located in San Francisco?, and which are mostly backed by interests outside San Francisco? This section provides the answers.

Summary: Wondering where campaign contributors get their money? This section simplifies and consolidates the byzantine reporting of Occupation (and Employer) information for individual contributors in order to show which industries and professions are backing which candidates.

Summary: Which candidates’ campaigns are stimulating the local economy with their expenditures? Which candidates’ campaigns are volunteer-based grassroots efforts and which others rely heavily on paid staff? This section examines the clues.

Disclosure: Oliver Luby has contributed $25 to the John Avalos mayoral campaign and Marc Salomon has contributed $500 to the John Avalos mayoral campaign and $50 to the Ross Mirkarimi for Sheriff campaign. Mr. Luby has also done some volunteer work for the Avalos campaign. The authors have previously endorsed Ross Mirkarimi for Sheriff and John Avalos for Mayor, with a second place IRV endorsement of Leland Yee for Mayor. Mr. Luby has endorsed David Onek for District Attorney. This article was written in the authors’ capacities as longtime advocates for campaign finance disclosure, and the work was independent of any election campaign.

[i] The numbers for itemized monetary contributions in the table above were first reported in Part 1 (Section 1) of the preceding article. Candidates must itemize contributions that are $100 or more. The identified number of itemized monetary contributions equates with the total number of itemized rows reported in the electronic Form 460 (Schedule A) data of each candidate. While each row usually represents a distinct campaign contribution, some rows also report the return of such contributions, pursuant to the reporting requirements for return of contributions. Thus, the actual number of distinct itemized monetary contributions may be slightly lower in some cases than the numbers reported in the table above.